I quattro nomi che furono dati al bambino si giustificano così: Johannes Chrysostomus, perché il 27
gennaio, secondo il calendario cattolico, era intitolato a san Giovanni Crisostomo, patriarca di Costantinopoli e
patrono degli oratori; Wolfgangus, in onore del suo nonno materno, Wolfgang Nikolaus Pertl; Theophilus (Gottlieb, in
tedesco), in onore del padrino, Johann Gottlieb Pergmayr, commerciante e consigliere civico. In seguito l'ultimo nome
venne mutato nel più armonioso Amadeus (che è la traduzione latina del greco Theophilus), in ricordo anche
del fratello Carl Amadeus, defunto solo tre anni prima. Ma intanto il bambino fu chiamato affettuosamente
"Wolferl".
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